Askemos

TL;DR

Askemos is a space of communicating blockchains. It is an
operating system for the new level in computer memory hierarchy
where units are blockchains. Their addresses are hashcodes
derived from their genesis block proofing their initial
integrity. Those blockchains may be updated according to a smart
contract held in the genesis block when transaction messages are
processed. There is exactly one contract per blockchain for
minimal interference between independent contracts. Blockchains
may create new chains and send transaction messages to other
chains upon update. Note that there is no currency build into the
core as currencies can readily be implemented in smart contracts.

In a more philosophical light the blockchains in Askemos space
are the originals and have identity while every copy in physical
memory can be understood as a projection from the virtual block
chain into the physical device. The original is clearly different
from all the derived copies while the latter have no such
relationship among each other.

Askemos eliminates the need for trust in digital
relationships – be it trust in physical components or in
people.

Askemos is an autonomous meta-operating system for the clouds:
Ethical cloud computing for the future of digital due process and
finance.

Key features of the code ensure reliability when performing
digital transactions over distributed social networks.

In today's personal computing and cloud offerings, you must
trust that the system works reliably. Unfortunately, the
technology used today is fatally unreliable.

At some point, administrative personnel of unknown loyality and
physical machines that can be modified must be trusted. Abuse and
advanced persistent threats enable "sleeper agents" in the code
that can undermine missions at critical junctures.

Askemos is a concept and core set of principles (in technical
terms a protocol) that eliminates the need for trust in physical
machines or unethical people. It was published in the hope the
protocol may be adopted and incorporated into future software.
This enables trustworthy software to be designed that vigorously
protects inalienable human rights.

Principles

Due process: everything happens according to pre-defined
rules. Rules are code and contracts. These codes are
recursively based on code again down to the 1st contract, the
constitution. The same applies to program code.

Rights are inviolable; human rights are inalienable. We
acknowledge that infringement can happen- this is dealt with
via rule three:

Trustworthy facts are upheld by multilateral audit. Just as
humans seek others to witnesses to their transactions,
Askemos bears "digital witness" to these events. Askemos
actively replicates process execution- avoiding trust in
machines and their operators.

Proof Of Concept

BALL (Byzantine Aaskemos Language Layer) is an
implementation and proof-of-concept for Askemos. BALL proves this
is a practical idea and is already applied: it hosts itself, and
delivers this website among others. BALL has been used in several
research projects, bachelor- and master thesis; and for a number
of real world applications.